St. Edmund Campion Parish, Maidenhead

SVP Appeal

Every week there are new arrivals at the local asylum seeker hotel which the SVP have been supporting with the help of kind donations from parishioners. What we need most at the moment are new packs of underwear, socks and donations of any summer clothes in medium size for women and especially for men. If you can help please drop any donations to the parish office.

We are also always looking for hosts for homeless refugees. If you would like to talk about what might be involved in hosting please contact us on 07749 917134.

Youth SVP Needs You

St Vincent de Paul (SVP) Maidenhead would like to launch a new Youth SVP (YSVP) group for young people (aged 11 to 18 yrs). The St Vincent de Paul Society itself was founded thanks to a young student who walked through the poorest streets of his community on his way to university lectures each day. The poverty he came across inspired him to be the change and make a difference to those around him in need.

If you are interested in finding ways to make a difference by helping those in need within our local community then we'd love to hear from you. As part of the new group, the aim would be for you to meet one evening a month starting in September 2024 to discuss new ideas and to agree on activities. The group will be supported by a member of SVP Maidenhead but what you do and how you do it will be largely up to you.

To find out more or to register your interest please contact Hilda on 07749 917134.

W.O.R.K.

Widows and Orphans in Rural Kenya is a registered “Not-for-Profit” charity (Reg. No. 1119959).

W.O.R.K. is dedicated to helping people to become self-sufficient by supporting education, training and healthcare for widows and orphans.

Please donate online here if you can:

FOODSHARE

We are a collection point for Foodshare. Our collection area is just inside the porch doors, but if you leave food outside, out of hours (in a bag or other covering) the building is regularly checked. Foodshare are currently really in need of tinned vegetables and tinned meat, amongst all the regular donations.

We are currently helping over 120 families a week through food parcels and the Foodshare shop. We are running our "Holiday Hunger" program during the summer holidays. We provide breakfast food to schools and free lunches twice a week. There is more information on our website foodshare.charity. We are currently in need of financial donations. Donations can be made via the Foodshare website.

Welcome

Everyone at St Edmund Campion Parish in Maidenhead welcomes you to our Catholic community. Hopefully you will find all the information you are looking for - if not, please contact us and we will answer any questions you may have.

If you would like to know more about us and what we do, take a look at our Welcome Brochure. We look forward to meeting you soon.

The address of the Church and office is: 40a Altwood Road, Maidenhead. Berks. SL6 4PY. Details of how to find us are here.

Pastoral Area Update May 2024

Fr Liam has written another letter providing an update on the progress of the new Pastoral Area:

Dear Friend and Parishioner,

We have now had three further meetings of clergy and nominated representatives from each church community, in our new expanded Parish formation, as part of the 10-year mission plan: You will be my Witnesses.

The Parish transition team is made up of 26 people from all the churches as well as representatives from St Joseph’s convent. We meet monthly, to explore and start to come up with strategies, approaches and how we think the new Holy Family Parish will work in future.

I mentioned in the first two editions of these updates, that we are working towards a paper for the Diocese that explains how we, the churches in Maidenhead, Twyford, Wargrave, Cookham and Culham, as well as the convent, want to come together to create the new Parish of The Holy Family.

As a reminder, each church in our new Parish retains their name, their identity locally and publicly. There is no intention at all to change this.

Read about what have we been doing since February in the latest letter (May 2024) here.

You can read the previous letter (February 2024) here, and the first letter (November 2023) is here.

 

Pastoral Letter from Bishop Philip

The latest letter (May 2024 - Pray Every Day) is available to read here or you can watch it on YouTube.

Pray Every Day

I write this Pastoral Letter today to encourage you in the first of our Six Holy Habits: prayer, to spend five minutes or more each day in prayer, whenever and wherever you find best, ideally using the Gospel reading of the day. It's interesting how we live in an era when yoga, mindfulness and meditation is popular. This only demonstrates what Catholics have known for centuries: that for our psychological health and wellbeing, prayer is essential. Like hydration to the body, so is prayer to the soul.

Older Pastoral Letters from Bishop Philip

The March 2024 letter (Regular Confession) is available to read here or you can watch it on YouTube.

The letter from December 2023 (Christian Sunday) is available to read here or you can watch it on YouTube.

The previous letter from September 2023 (You will be my Witnesses) is available to read here or you can watch it on YouTube.

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